1. Letter from Mrs. Fred R. Jueneman (223 East Oakland,
Rapid City, SD) to Winnifred Ranford (10607 Pinyon Ave., Tujunga, CA) dated
11 June 1964, a photocopy of which was passed on from Winnie Ranford to
my aunt, Betty Ann (Matthiesen) Cogliati, who passed it on to me.

My husband's ancestor was James Thompson who
had a brother John Thompson, they came from Ireland to America prior
to the Revolutionary War and settled near Philadelphia, Pa. James
served in the War and then moved to So. Carolina and on to Tenn. with his
brother John. From Tenn. they moved on to Christian Co. Ky... I have a copy of an old letter written by James Frank
Thompson [grandson of James, the immigrant]... He does not give the
names of the children of John Thompson brother of James, born in Ireland...
correction- he gives Jeff Thompson, son of John (b.
in Ireland) Thompson, who had a command and fought so bravely in the Confederate
service...

For John THOMPSON (b. in Ireland ca. 1757) to have had a son fighting
in the Civil War — over a century later! — is simply not credible.
The father of Brig. Gen. M. Jeff THOMPSON (1826-1874), the "Missouri Swamp
Fox" of Civil War fame, was in fact Capt.
Meriwether THOMPSON, of Culpeper Co., VA. There is nothing in
the records — and certainly nothing in their geography — to suggest a connection
between these families. So, even if the above John THOMPSON had a
son, Jeff, he's not the Jeff THOMPSON of Civil War fame.

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